Archive for April, 2008
Tagging. Flickr Style.
In this article Tomas Webb discuss how and why to tag your images for flickr.
What are tags? Specifically, tags are describing words, or keywords, that relate to a photo (or photos). While there are numerous ways you can manage tags with external software, this post will be dealing primarily with tags attributed to photos through [...]
Nikon D300 & SB-800 Speedlight Flash Diffusion Test
In this article Raymond K. Dauphinais discusses his personal test with a Nikon and a speedlight.
On camera flash photography has always challenged me. I learned photography, in West Germany during the early ‘70s, using natural light only, black and white film and developed my own prints. My first experience, in the early ‘80s, with a [...]
Take Out Your Camera
There are many reasons to bring out the camera. Maybe it’s a special occasion like a birthday, or you are on vacation, even the holidays have everyone pulling out their cameras. But what about those other times? Do you have a reason to take pictures more often?
There are many reasons to take [...]
Weekend Perusing: Photoblog Extravaganza!
I love photoblogs. I subscribe to about 58 photoblogs at the time of this posting. Photoblogs offer a glimpse into the world of a photographer that a gallery or flickrstream just doesn’t seem to convey. I think it’s because you can really see a photographer evolve over time if you follow long [...]
Lighting Techniques: Momentous Breakdown!
Learning photography lighting techniques can seem daunting at first. That’s why learning the 3 light set up is so important. It’s a great foundation for learning how to manipulate light and really start to shape shadows like the professional photographers. Eventually you will want to start experimenting with different lighting ratios and [...]
Composition And The Rule Of Thirds
Capturing better images with your digital camera can be a snap. Don’t worry this will not involve reading your camera’s really long manual. You don’t even have to worry about changing those pesky settings on your camera!
Weekend Perusing: Flexplore
One of the things about flickr is that it can be hard to find what you’re really looking for. I just spent hours at the flexplore website discovering some of the most amazing works on flickr and they were tailored to my likings. If you have a few extra hours handy you should [...]
Ray Flash! The Portable Ring Flash
ExpoImaging has introduced the Ray Flash a portable ring flash adapter for your hot-shoe flash unit. This is actually a fairly exciting new product from the team that also produces the ExpoDisc and ExpoAperture2.
Because we’ve been talking about Lighting Techniques these past couple of weeks I thought you guys would be interested in this [...]
Lighting Techniques: Guide To Buying Lights
Last week we looked at The 3 Light Set Up and before that we talked general information on Lighting Equipment. Today we’ll look a little more specifically into lighting equipment purchasing, and using what you have to get your professional studio portrait lighting off the ground.
As I’ve been writing this series on [...]
Weekend Perusing
Adobe Photoshop Express has come out now with lot’s of news surrounding their terms of use with the beta product. Some called it a mindless photo rights grab which must have caught Adobe’s attention because they seemed to do some rethinking on their terms of use. Admittedly I was surprised at how this [...]
Lighting Techniques: The 3 Light Set Up
This is portrait photography 101 type stuff here. Nothing too advanced going on, we are working with only three light sources here to get a basic portrait. Think of it as foundation material. You can’t build a beautiful house without knowing how to pour a simple foundation.
We have three lights all pointing [...]
Lighting Techniques: Lighting Equipment
In order to create masterful portraits like the professional photographers you need light. You don’t necessarily need professional lighting equipment, but you do need to be able to manipulate and control lighting situations. There are numerous ways to create portrait lighting so we’ll start with a photography lighting equipment rundown. In the [...]
